Banquet vs Dine - What's the difference?
banquet | dine | Synonyms |
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
(archaic) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
* Massinger
To participate in a banquet; to feast.
* Milton
(obsolete) To have dessert after a feast.
* Cavendish
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
* Coleridge
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
(obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
(obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
Banquet is a synonym of dine.
As nouns the difference between banquet and dine
is that banquet is a large celebratory meal; a feast while dine is .As a verb banquet
is to participate in a banquet; to feast.banquet
English
Noun
(en noun)- We'll dine in the great room, but let the music / And banquet be prepared here.
Verb
- Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets , I would not taste thy treasonous offer.
- Where they did both sup and banquet .
- Just in time to banquet / The illustrious company assembled there.
dine
English
Verb
(din)- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
- What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.